Trunk



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

W. J. LARGE.

TRUNK.

Pate nted June 26, 1-888.

l/Vl/E/VTOH WILLIAM J. LARGE.

WIT/1158858.-

ATTORNEY,

NITED STATES \VILLIAM J. LARGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,189, dated June 26, 18188.

Application filed May i 1888. Serial No. 273,243. (No model.) I

To aZZ w/tom it 17mg concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. LARGE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Trunks, of which the following is. a specification.

My invention relates especially to that class of trunks in which a sectional tray is combined with carriers for supporting the tray when it is raised from the trunlebody; and my invention consists of certain novel features of construction, hereinafter fully described, to permit easy and more effective adjustment of the tray for access to the trunkbody.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a cross-section of a trunk embodying my invention, the tray being in a lowered position. Fig. 2 represents a similar section thereof when the tray is in raised position. Fig. 3 represents a plan or top view thereof, partly in section.

Similar letters indicate similar parts. 4

The letter A indicates the trunk-body, and B 0 two sections of a tray fitted into said body, the sections being divided from each other lengthwise of the trunk, and both being left detached from the trunk-body to move freely into and out of it. At each end of the traysections is an arm, D, which is fixed rigidly to the rear section, B, as by tacks e, and pivoted to the front section, O, as atf, and on the ends of the rear tray-section are secured truir nions G, resting in bearings H, which are properly secured to the ends of the trunkbody, said bearings being composed of plates with open slots, as shown. On the rear side and interior of the trunk-body is hung a bracket, I, to swing horizontally to and from such side, and on the inside of the trunkcover J is secured a stop, 0, in form of a button, it being near the front of the cover. Said cover .I is properly hinged to the trunkbody, and is provided with the usual brace, S, for sustaining it in upright position.

Both tray-sections B O are open at the top, and when in position in the trunk-body rest on a sill, N, at each end of the body, as shown in Fig. 1, while when the sections are lifted out of the body they may be tilted, one on the trunnions G and the other on the pivots f, to take a position within the cover J, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby entirely freeing the trunk pivoted to the under side of the rear section,

B, to engage the frontsection, G, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a trunk, the combination of two movable tray-sections, end arms fixed to one section and pivoted to the other section, trunnions on the ends of one section, and bearings for said trunnions on the trunkbody, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a trunk,the combination of two movable traysections, end arms fixed to the rear section and pivoted to the front section, trunnions on the ends of the rear section, and bearings for said trunnions on the trunk-body, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a trunk, the combination of two movable tray-sections, end arms fixed to the rear section and pivoted to the front section, trunnions on the ends of the rear section, bearings for said trunnions on the trunk-body, and a swinging bracket on the trunk-body, forming a support for the rear section, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a trunk, the combination of two movable tray-sections, end arms fixed to the rear section and pivoted to the front section, trunnions on the ends of the rear section, bearings for said trunnions on the trunk-body, a swinging bracket on the trunk body forming a support for the rear seetion,and a stop on the trunk-cover to engage the front section, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM J. LARGE.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS G. BOWEN, J AS. S. EWBANK. 

